Produced from 1904
No product number
Hand lacquered
Mechanism: Clockwork
Height approx. 20 cm / 7,9 inches
You can clearly see in the images that Martin used the barber number 196 from 1904 to design this toy. Whether this is a unique one-off piece or whether there was a production run is unknown.
This is one of the rarest Martin toys.
Martin has made several other very rare and unnumbered figurines.
In the photo below from the 1904 St. Louis exhibition, he standing on the right near the red arrows.
Les jouets à la World’s fair en 1904 à Saint-Louis (Smitsonian Labraries-no copyright)
After work the barber went out to play his typical French game of “Jeux de Boules”
